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What is the bowl shaped hollow from which alpine glaciers originate?
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How do alpine glaciers form?
Alpine glaciers form when snow piles up after a while they begin to build up eventually making an alpine glacier.
How do you describe the landscape made by alpine glaciers compared to the landscape by continental glaciers?
Alpine glaciers leave behind U-shaped valleys, deep, high-altitude lakes and cliffs. Continental glaciers flow outwards scraping the landscape clean, making fairly flat lands and lakes
Where are cirque glaciers?
A cirque glacier is a small glacier that occupies a cirque or rests against the headwall of a cirque. A cirque is a deep, horseshoe-shaped hollow with steep walls which was created by erosive activity of glaciers.
Have glaciers been known to sculpt mountains and carve out valleys?
yes indeed. the can because due to all the eruptions the u shaped valley gets those round stones smoothed out and forms a v shaped valley
How are glaciers landscapes different from landscapes formed by water?
water cuts V-shaped valleys; glaciers carve out valley's that are U-shaped
What type of glaciers are sharp pyramid shaped and peaks formed by alpine glaciers?
horns
Why do continental glaciers smooth the landscape and alpine glaciers create ragged landscape?
I only know that alpine glaciers can carve deep u-shaped valleys in the mountains.
How do alpine glaciers form?
Alpine glaciers form when snow piles up after a while they begin to build up eventually making an alpine glacier.
How do you describe the landscape made by alpine glaciers compared to the landscape by continental glaciers?
Alpine glaciers leave behind U-shaped valleys, deep, high-altitude lakes and cliffs. Continental glaciers flow outwards scraping the landscape clean, making fairly flat lands and lakes
Where are cirque glaciers?
A cirque glacier is a small glacier that occupies a cirque or rests against the headwall of a cirque. A cirque is a deep, horseshoe-shaped hollow with steep walls which was created by erosive activity of glaciers.
What can continental glaciers form?
Glaciers can form U shaped valleys.
Have glaciers been known to sculpt mountains and carve out valleys?
yes indeed. the can because due to all the eruptions the u shaped valley gets those round stones smoothed out and forms a v shaped valley
How is a you shaped valley made?
glaciers carve u shaped valleys. ----
How are glaciers landscapes different from landscapes formed by water?
water cuts V-shaped valleys; glaciers carve out valley's that are U-shaped
How was the donner lake formed?
Donner Lake was formed during the Pleistocene period when earthquakes, volcanoes and glaciers carved and shaped the landscape. The earthquakes created the hollow space in the ground, lava and glaciers sealed up the outlets, and then the glaciers melted, water wore down the lava and the lake levels dropped by about 600 feet to what they are today.
What makes the hollow shaped disks in a chloroplast hollow?
Granas
How can you tell whether valley glaciers once existed in a mountainous region?
Look at the shape of the valleys. If they are V-shaped there were no valley glaciers; if they are U-shaped there were.
